4 ★ Coming off 2023's Crooked Mirror , Poland's own PANDEMIC are back to dish out a second serving of molten-hot steel. Phantoms ups the...

4 ★ Coming off their mixed but promising demo, After Winter Comes War , from 2021, Norway's own ABHORRATION have returned with a...

5 ★ NEED I SAY IT AGAIN – CHILE REIGNS SUPREME. I first heard MAYHEMIC back in 2022 when their newly-released comp The Darkest Age came...

4.5 ★ After bursting onto the Chilean scene back in 2008, CRUSHING BRAIN have been playing their own special brand of brutal thrash...

4 ★ If you’ve ever wondered what Voivod and Celtic Frost combined would sound like, well, here’s your opportunity to find out....

3.5 ★ As far as crossover goes, I’ll be the first to admit that it tends to be a large gray area for me. It was with this release,...

4.5 ★ In short, this is the Cavalera brothers re-recording the classic Sepultura album Schizophrenia from 1987... plus one new song....

4 ★ Just when I thought we wouldn’t ever get a new SABBAT album, it appeared like a phantom in the night. The first album since 2011’s...

4 ★ The thrash attack of 2024 is strong, folks. Much like The Usurper, this was a random find for me, but when I listened to it, I...

3.5 ★ There’s been a recent wave of blackened speed bands ever since Hellripper got somewhat big in the underground back in 2017 or so....

3.5 ★ Originally, I wasn’t even going to include this album as I stumbled upon it randomly, but as the days went by, I found myself...

4.5 ★ Last year, when PHANTOM released their debut LP Handed to Execution , I was quite blown away. Ironically, despite being from...

★★★ Having not been impressed by anything VULTURE have done since their 2017 album The Guillotine, I didn’t exactly have high hopes for a...

★★★ Now, this little Italian death/thrash act has only been around since 2022, but in that time I would have expected them to write and...

★★★★★ If I were a gambling man, I think I’d bet on Chile being the single country that always delivers when it comes to metal. In the...

★★★★ With nearly three years since their last album, I was super pumped to check this out! A unique blend of traditional heavy metal with...

★★★★ Beginning in classic Kerry King fashion, the song has an open-E galloping riff a-la SLAYER. Very predictable, but that’s not a bad...

★★★ After nearly 35 years of inactivity (barring an archival release in 2015), Wisconsin thrashers MORBID SAINT are back! Known for their...

★★★ Hailing from Zaragoza, Spain, comes APPARITION, a death/thrash power trio with an incredible skullcrushing debut LP! Pulling...